Something to Celebrate

The 2014 commencement speaker was former New Jersey governor Thomas H. Kean, who appeared on stage with graduating senior Eric LeGrand and President Robert Barchi. Kean requested that his $35,000 honorarium be donated to the university for a scholarship in honor of Eric LeGrand and the Class of 2014. To view more images from Commencement 2014, visit commencement.rutgers.edu.

Alumnus Jeffrey Brenner, a physician at Cooper University Health Care and a 2013 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, gave the Rutgers University–Camden commencement address at the Susquehanna Bank Center.

Rutgers University–Newark held its commencement at the Prudential Center in Newark, where Don Katz, the CEO of Audible, Inc., the audiobook seller, gave the keynote address.

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Shelly Kusnetz

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Marking the first graduating class of the newly constituted Rutgers, which now includes schools dedicated to medicine and the health sciences, Commencement 2014 featured an appearance by former governor Thomas H. Kean, who gave the commencement speech for Rutgers University–New Brunswick and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences at High Point Solutions Stadium on May 18. Eric LeGrand gave the Class of 2014 address as well as received his bachelor of arts degree.

Rutgers University–Newark held its commencement on May 21 at the Prudential Center in Newark, where Don Katz, the CEO of Audible, Inc., the audiobooks seller, gave the address.

Rutgers University–Camden honored its graduates with its commencement in the Susquehanna Bank Center at which Jeffrey Brenner RWJMS’95—a physician at Cooper University Health Care and a 2013 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship who also received an honorary doctor of science degree from Rutgers—addressed the 2014 graduating class as its keynote speaker.

The individual schools also held convocations surrounding the commencements.